I think if you look in this budget, this is possibly the toughest budget that certainly a Democratic President has ever put forward...

I don't know where you are from, but where I come from, most of our jobs come from successful small businesses.

What is so frustrating about this is, you know the drivers of our debt are the entitlement programs. And yet, you are doing nothing to address that.

Why did you duck, why are you not taking this opportunity to lead?

the elephant in the room is the tremendous growth of entitlements.

I appreciated your testimony earlier about the nature of al Qaeda, that it has fundamentally metastasized, and in fact, many believe that al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula is perhaps far more dangerous than any other aspect of al Qaeda today.

I appreciated the fact that the statement was made that a cyber attack could well be a declaration of war.

If confirmed, I request you continue to utilize this program to contract for appropriate services required by the Army.

Do we have strategies in place to make sure that if there is a transition that we are very knowledgeable about what military assets are there, what will happen to them?

Earlier this year I was pleased with the decision by the Air Force to replace the 12 retiring C-5A Galaxy aircraft with the C-17.

I think not only must that be one of your primary responsibilities, but I appreciate that it is in the forefront of your mind.

Violence against women and girls is frequently an early indicator of repressive regimes and instability.

While those areas receive the most attention from the world's media, they are certainly no more important to the United States' national interest than what happens in Latin America.

I happen to think that they have some nerve rejecting him, quite frankly, and so I want to know about the status of that.

It doesn't seem fair to penalize Pepe Lobo, who I think is doing a very good job in terms of trying to get his country back to normal.

I really was disappointed in Honduras that the MCC compact was not renewed and I think it is especially egregious because a large reason why it was not renewed was because of the corruption that happened in the previous regime.

I think it is unhelpful, frankly, in Middle East peace.

It is going to take some getting used to because for the last 2 years, our roles were reversed with myself as chairman and Mr. Mack as ranking member.